Name: Portrait of a Lady
Brand: Shilpa Ray

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Catalogue number

CD-NS-146

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-29

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Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

309272739312

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Shilpa Ray

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Northern Spy Records

<p>Shilpa Ray is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York with a blues punk sound. Led by singer-songwriter Shilpa Ray, their music has been compared to Blondie, The Cramps and Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Ray's singing style has been likened to Patti Smith, Nick Cave and Ella Fitzgerald. Notable for combining an Indian harmonium with a big-voiced blues-rock howler vocal approach, the band signed a record contract with Northern Spy Records and has toured internationally.</p>

With her raging new album <i>Portrait of a Lady</i>, New York punk rock/art pop songwriter Shilpa Ray has created her most searing and personal album to date. Written in the wake of the #metoo movement and the weathering years of the Trump Administration, the record finds Ray processing her own experiences with abuse, layering autobiographical detail with ferocious bon mots and surrealistic rock &amp; roll gloss. Featuring singles like the Stooges-styled 'Manic Pixie Dream Cunt,' the reverb soaked dream pop of 'Heteronormative Horseshit Blues,' and the hard-charging 'Bootlickers of the Patriarchy,' the album draws from a stylistic palette of synths, electronic beats, and hard rock guitars, inspired by artists like Ministry, Billy Idol, Pat Benetar, and the glittery, jagged but still pop guitars of Los Angeles hair metal.

Portrait of a Lady

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